Flesh Cinema

Author : Ara Osterweil
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 0719091918

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Flesh Cinema by Ara Osterweil Pdf

Flesh Cinema: The Corporeal Turn in American Avant-Garde Film explores the groundbreaking representation of the body in experimental films of the 1960s and 1970s. Focusing on sexually explicit films by Andy Warhol, Barbara Rubin, Stan Brakhage, Carolee Schneemann, Yoko Ono and Paul Sharits, this book demonstrates how experimental cinema not only transformed American visual culture, but also the lives of those who created it. By situating these films in relation to the civil rights and sexual liberation movements, Flesh Cinema investigates how social politics continue to inform their meaning. Drawing upon unpublished archival materials, this book provides a rich account of the intimate artistic collaborations that inspired these films. Merging close readings with historical and biographical analysis, Flesh Cinema argues that queer forms of friendship were essential to the innovative representations of bodies on-screen. In doing so, it provides a fresh take on avant-garde cinema for film and art scholars and students.

Author : David Kerekes
Publisher : Critical Vision
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1900486369

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Creeping Flesh by David Kerekes Pdf

Taking its cue from the horror film fanzines of yesteryear... Horror and fantasy cinema from around the world with a distinctive retro sensibility, Creeping Flesh focuses on obscure and vilified horror movies, the discovery of "lost" films, BBC telefantasy, and an appreciation of American and British exploitation. Book jacket.

Author : Raz Yosef
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0813533767

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Beyond Flesh by Raz Yosef Pdf

Zionism was not only a political and ideological program but also a sexual one. The liberation of Jews and creation of a new nation were closely intertwined with a longing for the redemption and normalization of the Jewish male body. That body had to be rescued from anti-Semitic, scientific-medical discourse associating it with disease, madness, degeneracy, sexual perversity, and femininityeven with homosexuality. The Zionist movement was intent on transforming the very nature of European Jewish masculinity as it had existed in the diaspora. Zionist/Israeli films expressed this desire through visual and narrative tropes, enforcing the image of the hypermasculine, colonialist-explorer and militaristic nation-builder, an image dependent on the homophobic repudiation of the "feminine" within men. The creation of a new heterosexual Jewish man was further intertwined with attitudes on the breeding of children, bodily hygiene, racial improvement, and Orientalist perspectiveswhich associated the East, and especially Eastern bodies, with unsanitary practices, plagues, disease, and sexual perversity. By stigmatizing Israels Eastern populations as agents of death and degeneration, Zionism created internal biologized enemies, against whom the Zionist society had to defend itself. In the name of securing the life and reproduction of the new Ashkenazi Jewry, Israeli society discriminated against both its internal enemies, the Palestinians, and its own citizens, the Mizrahim (Oriental Jews). Yosefs critique of the construction of masculinities and queerness in Israeli cinema and culture also serves as a model for the investigation of the role of male sexuality within national culture in general.

Author : Mauro Carbone
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438458809

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The Flesh of Images by Mauro Carbone Pdf

Highlights Merleau-Ponty’s interest in film and connects it to his aesthetic theory. In The Flesh of Images, Mauro Carbone begins with the point that Merleau-Ponty’s often misunderstood notion of “flesh” was another way to signify what he also called “Visibility.” Considering vision as creative voyance, in the visionary sense of creating as a particular presence something which, as such, had not been present before, Carbone proposes original connections between Merleau-Ponty and Paul Gauguin, and articulates his own further development of the “new idea of light” that the French philosopher was beginning to elaborate at the time of his sudden death. Carbone connects these ideas to Merleau-Ponty’s continuous interest in cinema—an interest that has been traditionally neglected or circumscribed. Focusing on Merleau-Ponty’s later writings, including unpublished course notes and documents not yet available in English, Carbone demonstrates both that Merleau-Ponty’s interest in film was sustained and philosophically crucial, and also that his thinking provides an important resource for illuminating our contemporary relationship to images, with profound implications for the future of philosophy and aesthetics. Building on his earlier work on Marcel Proust and considering ongoing developments in optical and media technologies, Carbone adds his own philosophical insight into understanding the visual today. Mauro Carbone is Full Professor of Philosophy at the University of Lyon 3 and a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France. His books include An Unprecedented Deformation: Marcel Proust and the Sensible Ideas (translated by Niall Keane), also published by SUNY Press. Marta Nijhuis is Lecturer in Philosophy and Theory of Images at the University of Lyon 3 and at EAC Lyon.

Author : Saige Walton
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789048528493

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Cinema's baroque flesh by Saige Walton Pdf

In 'Cinema's Baroque Flesh', Saige Walton draws on the philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty to argue for a distinct aesthetic category of film and a unique cinema of the senses: baroque cinema. Combining media archaeological work with art history, phenomenology, and film studies, the book offers close analyses of a range of historic baroque artworks and films, including 'Caché', 'Strange Days', the films of Buster Keaton, and many more. Walton pursues previously unexplored connections between film, the baroque, and the body, opening up new avenues of embodied film theory that can make room for structure, signification, and thought, as well as the aesthetics of sensation.

Author : Ara Osterweil
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 0719088615

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Flesh Cinema by Ara Osterweil Pdf

Flesh Cinema: The Corporeal Turn in American Avant-Garde Film explores the groundbreaking representation of the body in experimental films of the 1960s and 1970s. Focusing on sexually explicit films by Andy Warhol, Barbara Rubin, Stan Brakhage, Carolee Schneemann, Yoko Ono and Paul Sharits, this book demonstrates how experimental cinema not only transformed American visual culture, but also the lives of those who created it. By situating these films in relation to the civil rights and sexual liberation movements, Flesh Cinema investigates how social politics continue to inform their meaning. Drawing upon unpublished archival materials, this book provides a rich account of the intimate artistic collaborations that inspired these films. Merging close readings with historical and biographical analysis, Flesh Cinema argues that queer forms of friendship were essential to the innovative representations of bodies on-screen. In doing so, it provides a fresh take on avant-garde cinema for film and art scholars and students.

Author : Sandra Annett
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781452971162

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The Flesh of Animation by Sandra Annett Pdf

How animation can reconnect us with bodily experiences Film and media studies scholarship has often argued that digital cinema and CGI provoke a sense of disembodiment in viewers; they are seen as merely fantastic or unreal. In her in-depth exploration of the phenomenology of animation, Sandra Annett offers a new perspective: that animated films and digital media in fact evoke vivid embodied sensations in viewers and connect them with the lifeworld of experience. Starting with the emergence of digital technologies in filmmaking in the 1980s, Annett argues that contemporary digital media is indebted to the longer history of animation. She looks at a wide range of animation—from Disney films to anime, electro swing music videos to Vocaloids—to explore how animation, through its material forms and visual styles, can evoke bodily sensations of touch, weight, and orientation in space. Each chapter discusses well-known forms of animation from the United States, France, Japan, South Korea, and China, examining how they provoke different sensations in viewers, such as floating and falling in Howl’s Moving Castle and My Beautiful Girl Mari, and how the body is mediated in films that combine animation and live action, as seen in Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Song of the South. These films set the stage for an exploration of how animation and embodiment manifest in contemporary global media, from CGI and motion capture in Disney’s “live action remakes” to new media installations by artists like Lu Yang. Leveraging an array of case studies through a new approach to film phenomenology, The Flesh of Animation offers an enlightening discussion of why animation provides a sensational experience for viewers not replicable through other media forms.

Author : Jack Sargeant
Publisher : Amok Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Art
ISBN : 1878923285

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Flesh and Excess by Jack Sargeant Pdf

Focusing on key works by two award-winning underground filmmakers, Usama Alshaibi and Aryan Kaganoff, Sargeant examines the desire and the need for shocking bodily representations and interventions in film. Challenging readers to examine the nature of pleasure, of viewing and of experiencing cinema, he punctuates his writing with philosophical analysis while exploring industrial culture, surrealism, butoh dance, fine art and medical fetishism.

Author : Kornelia Boczkowska
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004537989

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Lost Highways, Embodied Travels: The Road Movie in American Experimental Film and Video by Kornelia Boczkowska Pdf

What is the relationship between the road movie, American experimental filmmaking and the body?

Author : Justin Ponder
Publisher : Springer
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783319585567

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Art Cinema and Theology by Justin Ponder Pdf

This book examines postmodern theology and how it relates to the cinematic style of Robert Bresson, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Ingmar Bergman, and Luis Buñuel. Ponder demonstrates how these filmmakers forefront religious issues in their use of mise en scène. He investigates both the technical qualities of film “flesh” and its theological features. The chapters show how art cinema uses sound, editing, lighting, and close-ups in ways that critique doctrine’s authoritarianism, as well as philosophy’s individualism, to suggest postmodern theologies that emphasize community. Through this book we learn how the cinematic style of modernist auteurs relates to postmodern theology and how the industry of art cinema constructs certain kinds of film-watching subjectivity.

Author : Ara Cybele Osterweil
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 730 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:C3503338

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Flesh Cinema by Ara Cybele Osterweil Pdf

Author : David Huckvale
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476640785

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Terrors of the Flesh by David Huckvale Pdf

The horror and psychological denial of our mortality, along with the corruptibility of our flesh, are persistent themes in drama. Body horror films have intensified these themes in increasingly graphic terms. The aesthetic of body horror has its origins in the ideas of the Marquis de Sade and the existential philosophies of Arthur Schopenhauer and Friedrich Nietzsche, all of whom demonstrated that we have just cause to be anxious about our physical reality and its existence in the world. This book examines the relationship between these writers and the various manifestations of body horror in film. The most characteristic examples of this genre are those directed by David Cronenberg, but body horror as a whole includes many variations on the theme by other figures, whose work is charted here through eight categories: copulation, generation, digestion, mutilation, infection, mutation, disintegration and extinction.

Author : Jeremi Szaniawski
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231167345

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The Cinema of Alexander Sokurov by Jeremi Szaniawski Pdf

One of the last representatives of a brand of serious, high-art cinema, Alexander Sokurov has produced a massive oeuvre exploring issues such as history, power, memory, kinship, death, the human soul, and the responsibility of the artist. Through contextualization and close readings of each of his feature fiction films (broaching many of his documentaries in the process), this volume unearths a vision of Sokurov's films as equally mournful and passionate, intellectual, and sensual, and also identifies in them a powerful, if discursively repressed, queer sensitivity, alongside a pattern of tensions and paradoxes. This book thus offers new keys to understand the lasting and ever-renewed appeal of the Russian director's Janus-like and surprisingly dynamic cinema – a deeply original and complex body of work in dialogue with the past, the present and the future.

Author : Harvey Fenton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Erotic films
ISBN : 1903254108

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Flesh and Blood Compendium by Harvey Fenton Pdf

The widely acclaimed journal of cinema and video for adults celebrates its tenth anniversary in style with this uncompromising collection of the very best cutting-edge features, interviews and film reviews to have graced its pages! Amongst a multitude of entertaining and informative articles, Flesh & Blood Compendium features exclusive interviews with Brazilian cult director and actor Coffin Joe, Oscar winning cinematographer and acclaimed horror director Freddie Francis, the late art-house favourite Marco Ferreri, cult porn director Gerard Damiano (The Devil in Miss Jones and Deep Throat), necro-art auteur Nacho Cerda, Euro exploitation masters Tinto Brass, Jess Franco and Joe D'Amato, super-slick porn prodigy Michael Ninn, horror directors including Michele Soavi, Norman J. Warren and Richard Stanley, plus Fred Williamson, Russ Meyer, Peter Jackson and more! Plus there are in-depth appreciations of everything from slasher movies and contemporary sci-fi epics to RealiTV, Prosthetic Sex films, the British Trash Files and censorship, plus a great many reviews of films that you just can't read about anywhere else. All this and much more for everyone who is interested in sex, death & movies! Book jacket.

Author : National Society of Film Critics
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015035767469

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Flesh and Blood by National Society of Film Critics Pdf

Essays addressing such topics as voyeurism, women as aggressors, alternative lifestyles, slasher films, and issues of exploitation.